Undershirt.



PATEN TED JAN. 29, 1907.

QM L H M W INVENTOR ATTORNEY g UNITED "STATES PATENT -QFFIQ WILLIAM s. MILLS, 0F BRIDc'r'iPos'r, CONNECTICUT, Assmsos'. to THE w. s. MILLS COMPANY, or BRIDGEPORT, CO'NNEGTIOUT; A CORPORATION OF CONNECTICUT.

I unosasl-un'r.

no..s42,224;

- I Pate tednd 29, 1907.

Application filed October 1', 190 6- Serial No; 836.871.

' To all whom it may concern:

Bridgeport, in. the county of Fairfield and,

State of Connecticut, have-invented certain new and useful Im rovements in Undershirts, of which the ollowing 'isa specifica- ---tion.

i applied to the person the shall so fit as-to Y shall be so formed that all buttons, safetypins, and other similar hard'and rigid fastenvent all ob'e'ctionable. unches.,and wrin-f es' and thatm'addition to being'easily ap-' plied-and removed and to being provided;

a double. thickness of material in the frontfor warmth and protection thegarm'ent lng devices may be dispensedwith and pro;

visions made whefreb it may-be drawn up ,around' the neck of t e'wearerto fi t closely thereto. 'Heretofore in the manufacture of jectionablewherethe strap on the e ge of one of the over lapping fiapjsor fronts ispassed throu h the ot drawing up the upper edge of the garmgj t V whereby to fitit more, closely to the neo as a -The objects of m the wearer.

' to remedy these an other defectsfand at the parts.

4 tain peculiarities of construction of which the same time produce an undershirt which shall fit the person of the wearer more .accuratel 1 than those heretofore in use and which in; thereto shall prevent all gaping of the dition To theseends the invention consists in cerembodiment preferred in ractice is herein-' after more particularly 'escribed and the. features of novelty thenpointed ontxin the,

sulfi'ofined claimal. e errmg to 'e accompan which forma part of this speciiii drawmgsi Y tion 'with the e e-ofthefiap'. that is secured to the: body portion of the garment separated In the manufacture of undershirts, e udespeciall of those which are. designed to be "w'orn y infants, it is desirable that when which the garment is provided.

outwardly extending,flap sections a. and a=,

7 the line of joinder of or no provisions have been ma e for invention are therefore as left at'its' outer edge to the web free, asmaybe preferred;

With the body of the undershirt .thuscation, Fi re-j 1 shows an'mside face view of an unders j constructed 1n accordance "with my m'veny therefrom and both flaps sriread outward or Be it known that I, WILLIAM,S.- MrLLs, a. citizen of the United States, and a resident of ont view of. the

extended; Fig. 2, a similar fixedly secured thereto; aspin the completed garment; and Fig. 3, a similar front view of the garment, showing its, parts in the posi-- tionl-lthey occupy when the garment is applied .itote l In al the figureslike letters of reference are employed to" designate corresponding parts.

A indicates the bod portion of an underbular. form; an B indicates the sleeves In the manufacture of the body-portion preferably knit or otherwise form a flat web shirt, which is refers; ly constructed in tuwith A of ap roximately the contour of that shown in ig. 1 with a central section a'and which ina beformed either. integrally with the centre section or separate therefrom and united to it by seaming or otherwise," as may be preferred. As thus formed this web is converted into the, body of the undershirt byf'o' folding oneorlthe other of 'the-fla .-sections over upon the central section a and g y fixedly securing its outeredgfi to the web at about t e the central section an line of stit h 3 other flap-section to other equivalent means, whereby to give it a I tubular contour, as shown in Fig. 2. In=the drawings 1 have illustrated the flap-section q? as-thus folded over upon and its outered e secured to the web to form the tubular b0 y of the arment and the other fiap section a the other-whenever it is esired to apply the garment to orremove it from the person of the wearer;;but.this is merely illustrative; and either of the flap-sections 'ma be secured and t e other left formed; the sleeves B may be secured thereto e to foldover u on and away from in 'proper'positions'in various ways." When the body portion i of the undershirt is made upfromsections united along the respective" lines of joinder ofthe flap-sections av-and aiwithi'th'e central or back'sectidne, the

holes 1 for. ;the sleeves may be convenientliy termed byl-eaving' the upper ends of'the'a joining edges of. the flap and back sections I -'rows of stitching,- as shown, for instance, at

b, and either of these methods of securing the sleeves to the body of the garment may be adopted and the sleeves either knitted in tubular form or otherwise fashioned andseamed up, as'rnay be desired.

, ,While the body of the undershirt and the fastening ofthe sleeves in lace are thus effected, thesecurement of the garment upon the person of'the wearer is accomplished by ,aplurality of pairs of strings c, which are dis sed at the proper distances apart u an down its front,with one member of-eac 1 pair secured to the edge of the overlapping flapas,.forinstance, to theedge of the flap a'fand the other member thereof secured to the outside of the garment pro er-relationship thereto, while inorder to raw up and cause the upper edge ofthe-undershirt to fit closely around the'neck of the wearer I -find it convenient to'employ a string or cord c, which is passed. around such edge in a'suitable welt 0 formed around the same in the shape of a hem or series of'loops ,to receive it.

the undershirt be fastened upon the person of the wearer'and caused tofit closely around his neck, but in consequence of. they constructionand arrangement- -of thefastening and taking up devices, a moreaccurate'fit of-the garment upon the person of the wearer is assured than has been possible with the gar ments of this character asheretofore in use.

With-the undershirt constructed as above described its application to the person of. the

4 wearer is effected by first loosening and turning backthe loose flap andthen thrusting the arms upward through thetubular body portion and through the sleeves, to be followed through the tubular portion by the head andupper'portionof the body-'of-the wearers after which the loose'flap is folded over the front, the upper edge of the garment drawn up to the required extent by the drawing-u flap-properly secured by tying after the proper adjustment of the parts of'the garment upon the wearer has been efi'e'cted. From the foregoing, therefore, it will be seen string, and such string with those emp oyed in connection with the loose that I produce an undershirt which in addi- 1 tion to obviating all objectionable bunches and wrinkles and insuring of a more perfect fit of the garment than has been possible with articles of this character asheretofore in use it-at the same time dispenses with the necessity for buttons, safety-pins, and other hard and unyielding fastening devices and permits of the employment of soft pliable strings, which intheir use 'supplies fastening devices that are more or less adjustable.

Although in the drawings 1 have shown and in the above described a particular form of-web from which the body of the undershirt is produced,;l wish it distinctly underst'oodthat I do'n'ot limit myself thereto, as it is obvious thatthis particular form may be modified-in various ways without departing from the-spirit. of myinvention, so long as it retains". the other essential characteristics of the garment.

V Havingnow described myinvention and specified the :best means contemplated by me for carrying it into effect,"-I claim anddesire to secure by Letters Patent of the United .State's- By these means, as will be seen not only may The'co'mbinaiion in an undershirt, with a tubular body provided with a welt around itsup' per edge, andv a loose reinforcing-flap for.cotiperatingtherewith, of a string for engaging with such'welt for drawing up such upper edge,,and a pluraliryof pairs of strings "disposed at proper distances apart onthe front. of the garment for securing the reinforcing-flapin roper position over such front, substantial y as described. I

In testimony whereof I have hereunto sci my hand, in the presence of two Witnesses, this 26th dayof September, 1906.

r WILLIAM S. MILIB. Witnessesz' C. W. BEARDSLEY,

KATHLEEN B. BLIGHT. 

